Setting Up Your Axes - MachMotion Apollo I User Manual

Figure 16 Drive Enable Signals
The Mitsubishi, Yaskawa, and TECO servo drives from MachMotion are all enabled with a ground signal. Therefore EXT
and GND are connected together as shown below.
Figure 17 Drive Enable Example
The blue LED (labeled Drive Enable) on the top middle of the breakout board turns on as soon as the drive enable
signal from Mach3 is detected. The blue LED does not mean that the drive enable relay is activated. The drive enable
relay is only activated when the red (E-Stop), green (Enable), and blue (Drive Enable) LEDs are on.
Figure 18 Drive Enable LED
If you need to use the drive enable signal without using the axis control cables, just connect your signal directly to SOV.
Drive enable uses the same output as the hardware enable. See Figure 15 for the Charge Pump setup.
Now all the LEDs on the Apollo I (besides the inputs and outputs) should be on. If not, go back and make sure that you
set up everything correctly. If all the LEDs are on, you are ready to begin setting up your axes.

5. Setting up Your Axes

To set up your axes you must connect your drives and set up the Mach3 software.
5.1 Connecting Your Drives
The Apollo I Breakout Board uses step and direction to control your axes. You can use differential or single-ended
outputs. For differential outputs you have two signals for step (step + and step -) and two signals for direction
(direction + and direction -). For single-ended you only have one signal for both step and direction. All MachMotion